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‘The Arab Case for Israel’: Explaining the conflict between Jews and Arabs
Abigail Klein Leichman
April 12, 2026

Attorney Alan Dershowitz’s bestselling 2003 book The Case for Israel was flawed from the get-go by the fact that its author is Jewish and American. This is a topic best handled by an insider – and not a Jew, but an Arab. An Arab with intellectual curiosity, integrity, courage, and journalistic expertise. Lebanese-Iraqi journalist and scholar Hussain Abdul-Hussain fits the bill…Raised in Beirut, Baghdad, and Baalbek, Abdul-Hussain witnessed Israeli airstrikes as a child, marched in anti-Israel protests as a young man, covered Middle East news for Beirut’s The Daily Star, and then plunged into rigorous research that blew his previous misconceptions out of the water. Abdul-Hussain’s case for Israel rests on decades of firsthand experience in the Arab world, years of work in Beirut, Kuwait, and Washington as a journalist and policy analyst – currently he’s a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies – and an authentic familiarity with the Arabic-speaking world, Hebrew source material, and Western attitudes toward the Middle East. READ MORE